UN: Zodiac | Happy New Year!

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WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Libra App
WHEN: Janary 1st
WHAT: Zodiac Network Post
WARNINGS: None!

[As the month moves into January, the temperature drops sharply, bringing in the colds of deep winter. In the sky, the Spirit vein turns to shades of blue as the Water element comes into effect. Everyone's devices will emit a soothing wind chime sound as a new Zodiac post appears. The chime will sound even if you have your phone turned off or on silent, and will not stop until you read their message and comment to it.]



AZ, Whisper, Anaxa and Alastor have joined the app. Say hi everyone!


Blackwargreymon, Arjuna, Cyrene, and Joshuahave left the app.

[The post then continues on.]

Hello and thank you for using the Libra app.

Happy New Year everyone! Can you believe that 2025 is already over? This year has really flown by! We hope you all had a wonderful year, and an even better 2026!

As for announcements, there aren't too many- so I'll try not to keep you too long! This month, Zodiac will be helping sponsor the annual Winter Carnival! As such, we hope you're willing to brave the cold and embrace the joys of winter! There will be the ice palace, a snowman building competition- and don't forget, the ever popular ice fishing tournament! I've heard the winner gets a cash prize and an all expenses-paid fishing weekend trip, so you don't want to miss that!

Besides that, the seers haven't detected any immediate dangers, though they keep giving us the weather forecast for Barcelona for some reason. I wish they'd stop, I don't like being reminded how much warmer and sunnier it is in Spain while I'm stuck here-- not that I mind the cold at all!

Oh, and one last thing- we want to remind you guys that the Zodiac job board is carefully vetted by Zodiac! As such, you can trust any jobs posted there can be trusted- especially since we've added a number of security features to screen job posers! However, not every job board in the city uses the same care and precaution- so be wary of that! If you care about your safety, go to Zodiac first!

That's all for now! We hope you have a Happy New year, and we leave you off with our ever popular ice breakers!


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Please note that there will be no city log this month. As such, players are free to make their own posts and mingles regarding city events. If you want more details on what's happening the city this month, it can be found here. ]

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Comments

[chrysospoeia]

[ ... Well, he tried. ]

Technically speaking, I have many. My home was suspended within a colossal ouroboros of sorts, repeating itself time and time again. I have inherited my own history and the memories that come with it more times than a common person would be able to fathom. Many of those also included allowing the Titan to dwell within my soul, although... she isn't with me now.

[ It's all... kind of a headache, really. ]

[doublethumbsup]

WHAT
how do u have MANY???
thats
i dont think they work like that???




ok right different univeses i GUESS???

[chrysospoeia]

If you'd like the exact number, I have that memorized. It'd be impossible not to, when I can remember all of them so clearly.

33,550,337

[ It's exhausting. Can you tell he's exhausted. ]

As far as I'm aware, our situation is unique, even among the other worlds in the cosmos. ... That is, in the universe that I came from. That's as deeply as I care to think about the particulars of my existence at present.

[doublethumbsup]

ok thats
i dont think any of the idols has that many past lives like
athena?
shes OLD but only has one set??? or maybe two idk

youre even older than ATHENA then dude

[They do not Get It.]

[chrysospoeia]

And to think, I'm not even the oldest person that I know.
Perhaps I should be holding this special status of "impossibly old" over the heads of certain people.

[ Tone does not translate into text, but... Anaxagoras is amused. ]

[doublethumbsup]

whoa
people are old as balls where youre from dude

[chrysospoeia]

I come from a world where people like me live to be a thousand years old or more. Without taking into account the numerous repeated lives.


So, yes. We do tend to be "old as balls".

[doublethumbsup]

dude

youd see like
three Y2Ks.

does it get like
boring? after a while or ....?

[chrysospoeia]

Y2Ks?

[ That sounds like shorthand. It sounds like the kind of shorthand he would use in his research notes. Is this what it feels like to be his dear assistant, unable to proofread anything? ]

There was never quite enough time to be bored, no. I spent every recurrence immersed in my research, or teaching at the Grove, or helping to fight back the inevitable end of the world.

[doublethumbsup]

oh yeah like
when it was a new millenium people thought their computers were gonna explode
and like
planes fall out of the sky and idk
carrots eating people
but it didnt happen
(because like tech guys worked real hard on it to fix everything beforehand lol)


... end of the world
oh
uh
thats
thats rough buddy

[chrysospoeia]

Ah. I see. A predetermined date upon which all infrastructure would fail, if not for the actions of a select few. How coincidentally familiar.

I have fought back complete armageddon over thirty three million times, all for the hope of a better future. And I do believe that we achieved that better future, even if I am not there to watch it unfold.

[doublethumbsup]

it is?

WAHJHDFKDS WHAT
THATS SO MANY????
WHY ARE YOU STILL COUNTING

[chrysospoeia]

Thankfully, we are not 'still counting.' Our agonies are over at last. Still, the memory of such struggle does leave a lasting mark upon its sufferers.

[ He's fine. ]

[doublethumbsup]

oh ok thats good

holy crap tho dude
why DID you count so many???

[chrysospoeia]

There was no choice. If we did not hold the line, then the universe at large would have surely perished. There were far greater forces at play in Amphoreus than simple Titans.

[doublethumbsup]

oh no no no i get THAT
like
you gotta keep the universe together and stuff cause like
u LIVE THERE

just
why COUNT
thats so much counting

[HERMES...]

[chrysospoeia]

One among our number lived every last cycle in real time. I want to believe that he counted... to remind himself what he was fighting for. Holding on to that number is the least that we can do to remember his sacrifices.

[ He is incredibly fond of that student of his. Maybe it shows. Just a little. ]

[doublethumbsup]

oh



uh
ok now i kinda feel like a douche for asking
my bad

[chrysospoeia]

There's no need to apologize. I understand that our situation is... particularly unique.

Everything did work out in the end, anyway. Had things gone any other way, I doubt I would be here to speak with you.
And... this conversation has certainly been an enlightening one.